[Main Blog Post] [Books] Military Fiction

[jprussell]

In a comment on the last Ecosophia Post, I shared some recommendations for "military fiction," and the requester, Justin Patrick Moore, suggested it might make a good blog post. Well, what do you know, the second chapter of Seed of Yggdrasill turns out to be the length of a short book and my kids and work were a bit of a handful this week, so I expanded and edited the comment a bit and share with you now my thoughts.

As always, I'd love to hear any reactions, and for this one, I'd welcome any recommendations for stuff I missed that you've enjoyed.

Comments

P.S.: Stross

[(Anonymous)]

You might like the "Merchant Princes" series by Charles Stross. It's a multiverse type series in something of a homage to Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber. What does it for me is that it is really good social/economic type SF embedded within that. A really fun and adventurous romp as well. I haven't read his other works.

JPM

Re: P.S.: Stross

[jprussell]

Ah, nice, I've had that on my "to get to" list for a while now - I think I heard about it looking for stuff to use as inspiration for my homebrew D&D setting. I've literally had an omnibus edition of Chronicles of Amber on my bedside table for nearly a year now, but I keep picking up other stuff instead.

I have The Atrocity Archives as an ebook, on the strength of a recommendation of a friend of mine, but I haven't read it either, so I don't think I've read any of his stuff either, which is weird, cos I've read so many others in the same/similar "scene" (Doctorow, later William Gibson, and so forth) that I keep thinking I've read him too, but nope, I haven't!